ABOUT THE RIGHT TO BE A PERSON IN MENTAL SUFFERING: FROM THE SAFETY TO THE PARTICIPATION?

Authors

  • Cyril HAZIF-THOMAS Psychiatre du sujet âgé, CH Bohars, Pdt Comité éthique du CHRU de Brest ; Docteur en droit
  • David JOUSSET Maître de conférences en Philosophie HDR, Centre atlantique de recherche en éthique – CAPHI (EA 7463), UBO Brest.
  • Michel WALTER Professeur de Psychiatrie, Chef de pôle, CH Bohars, CHRU Brest

Keywords:

Care, Participation, Mental health, Handicap, Ethics, Law

Abstract

The intention to explore the links between carers and psychiatric patients – or persons in situation of psychosocial handicap – in the prism of their rights for the everyday life of their interactions is doubtless a real challenge. It is inevitably a complex mission when we work into psychiatric institution and when require that the teams of care get involved both in the reassurance and in the participation. We intend to question the aims of this “total institution”. It is clearly interesting but really difficult at the time of the policy of care that articulates quality with ethics, and positive treatment with mental health within the hospital area. Should not the medical function favor as much the control of the symptoms as the process of empowerment?

Published

2022-11-20

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 3-4: DSS

Section

Articles